POLITICS

Totally unbiased reporting and commentary! Yes I am somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun

Dilemma / Question
I have a tough question for you. This is an imaginary situation, but
thinking about it will provide insights into your internal priorities and
judgment.
The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in
progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and
structures destroyed.
Let's say that you're a photographer, getting still photos for a news
service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes.
You come across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the
floodwaters.
He is barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under. You can
either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize-winning
photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.
So, here's the question, and think carefully before you answer it:

Which lens would you use?

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool
and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is
warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in
the cold.

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, Building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool
and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the
shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant
should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next
to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit
the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they
sing "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in
front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing
"We shall overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for
the grasshopper's sake. Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls
for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".
Finally,
the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act",retroactive
to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a
proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his
retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets
her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against
the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill
appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's
food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared
in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and
the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize
the once peaceful neighborhood.

Totally unbiased reporting and commentary! Yes I am somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun